Year 1

You will acquire foundation knowledge in both English and Film Studies. You will learn about the most popular modes of literature and the predominant styles in film.

Core modules

• Reading Film
• American Film and Visual Culture
• The Novel Around the World
• Renaissance Drama: Shakespeare and his Contemporaries

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year 2

During your film modules you will explore national and transnational cinemas, and work in groups to create your own short video. You will add a new dimension to your English education by studying the critical theories that have developed in response to literature and provide possible explanations of our relationship with art.

Core modules

• Film Production
• Critical Perspectives 1
• Researching World Cinemas
• Independent Research Project

Option modules

Choose one option module from

• Chaucer’s Worlds
• Diversity in Contemporary American Literature
• Using Stories
• Gothic

Then choose one option module from

• Modern Literature from Heart of Darkness to Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Rewriting Britain from Windrush to Now

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Year Abroad (optional)

We’ll make sure you have everything you need for your future career: not just by awarding you a high quality degree, but also by helping you to develop the skills, knowledge and confidence you need to make your mark in the world as a Citizen of Change. One way you can do this is by opting to take a Year Abroad between Years 2 and 3 of your degree.

Studying abroad is not just for people who are interested in travelling and meeting new people. It is about acquiring life skills that are becoming increasingly significant for a wide range of jobs in our modern globalised society. Whether you go on to a career in the private, public or third sector - or plough your own furrow as an entrepreneur – you will find the experience invaluable.

For more information, including a list of destinations, please visit our Study Abroad website.

Please note

• A year spent abroad still incurs a tuition fee, but this is much lower than for a normal year at Leicester. See the Fees and Funding tab of this page for details.
• You may be eligible for a travel grant from Student Finance England.
• Places are offered on a competitive basis, and eligibility is dependent on your academic performance in Years 1 and 2.
• Language courses, at beginners or advanced level, are available through our Languages at Leicester scheme.

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (Film Studies Dissertation)

During your final year you will research and write a dissertation on an area of Film Studies that most fascinates you. The rest of your learning will be entirely decided by you. A wide range of option modules will allow you to tailor your degree according to your interests and our expertise.

Core module

• Dissertation

Option modules 

• Renaissance Literature from Utopia to Paradise Lost
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Then choose one option module from:

• New Chinese Cinemas
• Containment and Resistance in 1950s and 1960s American Film
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
• British Popular Culture Since 1945
• Norms and Margins in French Cinema
• The Cinema of Luis Buñuel

Then choose one option module from:

• Weird Fiction/ Weird Film*
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas*
• Hitchcock and Film History*
• British Popular Culture Since 1945*
• Film and Art Journalism*
• Postwar Italian Directors*
• Cinematic Representations of Latin America*
• Queering the Renaissance
• Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action
• The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern
• Autobiography and American Literature
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts
• The Other in American Fiction and Film
• The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature
• Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations
• Tragedy
• Writing for Laughs
• Life and Fate: Russian Literature from Pushkin to Grossman
• Medieval Worlds
• Reading and Writing Climate Change Fiction

You must choose at least one option module marked *.

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.

Final Year (English Dissertation)

During your final year you will research and write a dissertation on an area of Film Studies that most fascinates you. The rest of your learning will be entirely decided by you. A wide range of option modules will allow you to tailor your degree according to your interests and our expertise.

Core module

• Dissertation

Option modules 

• Renaissance Literature from Utopia to Paradise Lost
• Victorians: from Oliver Twist to The Picture of Dorian Gray

Then choose two option modules from:

• Queering the Renaissance*
• Literatures of Protest: Reading and Political Action*
• The Latin World: Ancient, Medieval and Modern*
• Autobiography and American Literature*
• Late Victorian Gothic: Texts and Contexts*
• The Other in American Fiction and Film*
• The Thatcher Factor: The 1980s in Literature*
• Jane Austen: The Novels, their Contexts and their Adaptations*
• Tragedy*
• Writing for Laughs*
• Life and Fate: Russian Literature from Pushkin to Grossman*
• Medieval Worlds*
• Reading and Writing Climate Change Fiction*
• Weird Fiction/ Weird Film
• Stardom and Identities in Chinese and American Cinemas
• Hitchcock and Film History
• British Popular Culture Since 1945
• Film and Art Journalism
• Postwar Italian Directors
• Cinematic Representations of Latin America

You must choose at least one option module marked *.

Modules shown represent choices available to current students. The range of modules available and the content of any individual module may change in future years.